Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only against the moves of the high-handed CIA "cousins" he runs up against, but also against his own training and beliefs. What results is an intense emotional conflict to play counterpoint to the usual shoot-em-up spy duel, a remarkable spy story that ruthlessly dissects the tortured moral rationalizations that make up the mind of a cloak-and-dagger king...
Living with the truth, never an easy task, presents unusual moral dilemmas for investigative reporters as well as presidents. The reporter's entire occupational orientation compels him to make public all the information that can be unearthed. Ordinarily such disclosures merely embarrass public figures, but occasionally the release of certain information could endanger the national security. In such instances, the reporter must weigh the risks of exposing sensitive information against his professional obligation to report all that he knows...
...RESOLUTION of the Richard Helms case has furnished new evidence that the "national security" red herring is alive and well in the corridors of Washington these days, the moral of the Watergate parable notwithstanding. Allowing the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director to plead nolo contendre to two misdemeanor counts of failing to testify fully to Congress may have proven the most expeditious way of wrapping up the two-year-old investigation of Helms, but the circumstances surrounding the plea-bargain arrangement and its announcement has raised serious questions about the Justice Department's modus operandi that will ensure...
Unfortunately, Fast's life contains more dramatic and moral conflict than his new novel, The Immigrants. It is the first book in a projected trilogy that will follow a number of families from 1888 into the present. Universal already plans to film the saga as a 36-part TV series, for which Fast should gross $975,000. The paperback rights have been sold...
There is no easy moral here, Sade tells the audience at the end of the play. He is left "with a question that's always open," unable to decide between Marat's attempts to enforce justice with the guillotine, and his own efforts to change the world through exploring the individual psyche. Answers to the questions in the other levels of the play are no more forthcoming, and in the end, the audience sees not answers but chaos. The lunatics take over, and the asylum's guards can only create order with their clubs...